What does everyone do for a living?

[Luke Barnes]

Been to a psychologist or two. They helped me when I got out of the Army and was in denial that it effected me and that I had PTSD from 27 months in a combat zone. So I thank you. If you help one person I think you did an amazing job!

[shimmy]

3 hours ago, Luke Barnes said:

Been to a psychologist or two. They helped me when I got out of the Army and was in denial that it effected me and that I had PTSD from 27 months in a combat zone. So I thank you. If you help one person I think you did an amazing job!

 

I have talked a lot with Vets over the years. I cannot emphasize enough how inspiring you all are. Close friends of mine have explained the chronic stress of being in a combat zone even without being in a fire fight. Very grateful for servicemen like you who deploy so I can have my freedom.

 

You sir deserve a big bass. Feel free to contact me anytime my friend!

[gim]

8 hours ago, shimmy said:

I cannot emphasize enough how inspiring you all are.

 

One of my first cousins is a Psychologist and often deals with veterans and their PTSD.  The past year she has worked with basically nothing but health care workers.  She told me that Nurses, Technicians, and even Respiratory Specialists have seen so many people hacking up lungs and slowly suffocating in hospitals that it has left them mentally damaged to the point of PTSD.  We often think of combat veterans and military veterans as the only people who can experience this problem.  Definitely not true in the past year.

[Luke Barnes]

10 hours ago, shimmy said:

 

I have talked a lot with Vets over the years. I cannot emphasize enough how inspiring you all are. Close friends of mine have explained the chronic stress of being in a combat zone even without being in a fire fight. Very grateful for servicemen like you who deploy so I can have my freedom.

 

You sir deserve a big bass. Feel free to contact me anytime my friend!

Thank you sir, I truly appreciate it. Yes just the stress of being there and not knowing if at any second a mortar or rocket could drop on your head takes a toll. Not to mention culture shock!! I will take you up on that big bass and will let you know when I catch it! 

 

1 hour ago, gimruis said:

 

One of my first cousins is a Psychologist and often deals with veterans and their PTSD.  The past year she has worked with basically nothing but health care workers.  She told me that Nurses, Technicians, and even Respiratory Specialists have seen so many people hacking up lungs and slowly suffocating in hospitals that it has left them mentally damaged to the point of PTSD.  We often think of combat veterans and military veterans as the only people who can experience this problem.  Definitely not true in the past year.

I totally agree. Its not limited to war in the least. Frequent abuse, a single event, prolonged exposure to high stress, anything that can be traumatic can cause PTSD. Its a serious issue in the world not limited to vets. 

[clayton86]

Been bouncing around used to be a teachers aide at a tech school, fiberglass technician, tow truck driver that made the news haha, then retail in the fishing and hunting department, detailed cars and now 3 days ago I started as a armored car guard which hopefully sticks I’ve been bored everywhere else but towing but we all know how that went and family doesn’t want me back doing that. 

[Luke Barnes]

6 hours ago, clayton86 said:

Been bouncing around used to be a teachers aide at a tech school, fiberglass technician, tow truck driver that made the news haha, then retail in the fishing and hunting department, detailed cars and now 3 days ago I started as a armored car guard which hopefully sticks I’ve been bored everywhere else but towing but we all know how that went and family doesn’t want me back doing that. 

Sounds like a story is involved in the tow truck driver job!

[slonezp]

4 hours ago, Luke Barnes said:

Sounds like a story is involved in the tow truck driver job!

 It wasn't a happy one.

[clayton86]

5 hours ago, Luke Barnes said:

Sounds like a story is involved in the tow truck driver job!

Meh just me Vs a ‘99 F150 @ 50 mph. 
 

shattered my pelvis, broke my neck, ruptured liver, kidney, spleen, right lung collapsed plus the TBI. I bounced back fast though was right back in the truck doing it all again few months it happened November 13 I was back to work end of March. 
 

1 hour ago, slonezp said:

 It wasn't a happy one.

 It wasn’t THAT bad I totaled a Ford with my body lol 

[J Francho]

1 hour ago, clayton86 said:

It wasn’t THAT bad I totaled a Ford with my body lol

That's one way to look at it!

[Luke Barnes]

18 hours ago, slonezp said:

 It wasn't a happy one.

He sure is upbeat about it though!

[throttleplate]

i am a retired deplorable. I retired from being a heavy equipment mechanic at age 49 and sold everything i owned including my truck and moved to the philippines in 2009 for 10 years.

I met my wife over there and brought her back to the usa in 2019 and we are here to stay.

[slonezp]

6 hours ago, Luke Barnes said:

He sure is upbeat about it though!

Yes he is. Why spend your life feeling sorry for one's self? I had a work accident 10 years ago that left me permanently disabled. It took me a number of years to get thru the mental part of it. For me, a big part of the mental healing was finding a job that I both was physically able to do, that paid enough for me to live on, and that I enjoyed. I started that job 3-1/2 years ago. That was the end of 6 years of me feeling lost. Barring any unforseen circumstances, I'll work here until I'm ready to retire.

[BayouSlide]

Retired from a lifetime career in communications which included journalism, photography, marketing, p-r, writing, editing and advertising, during most of which I was fortunate to work on my own terms as my own boss. ?

[DogBone_384]

I’m a Firefighter in a small city just south of Boston, MA.

[JimT]

3 minutes ago, DogBone_384 said:

I’m a Firefighter in a small city just south of Boston, MA.

 

Lived on the south shore for several years when I was younger--Weymouth, Hingham, also Sharon briefly. 

 

on topic, I'm a college professor, getting near the end though, I'm almost 60. Have way too many hobbies and not enough time!

[schplurg]

I was a video game designer and had my own game in the Apple App Store Top 10 in 2011.

 

I worked 5 years before that managing my brothers strip bar.

 

Most recently I am a graphics designer working for a pot store here in San Jose, designing everything from product labels to billboards.

 

I'm about done with that job. For my next job I do not know. I'm 53. I am going to probably do my own thing and make sure it doesn't interfere with my fishing.

 

No more will my life revolve around work, it's going to be the other way around. I only got one life and it's probably well past halfway over. I'm taking control.

 

I will not be a graphic designer who also fishes (and no more heavy computer work). I am an angler who also works, and only because I have to.

 

 

[Luke Barnes]

15 hours ago, schplurg said:

I was a video game designer and had my own game in the Apple App Store Top 10 in 2011.

 

I worked 5 years before that managing my brothers strip bar.

 

Most recently I am a graphics designer working for a pot store here in San Jose, designing everything from product labels to billboards.

 

I'm about done with that job. For my next job I do not know. I'm 53. I am going to probably do my own thing and make sure it doesn't interfere with my fishing.

 

No more will my life revolve around work, it's going to be the other way around. I only got one life and it's probably well past halfway over. I'm taking control.

 

I will not be a graphic designer who also fishes (and no more heavy computer work). I am an angler who also works, and only because I have to.

 

 

I wish i could be like that. But ive got many years of working ahead of me and never had the motivation to start my own business. Or the know how, or experience, or knowledge. So I will work for the man until either I die or I win the lottery, which i dont play so.....

[schplurg]

5 hours ago, Luke Barnes said:

I wish i could be like that. But ive got many years of working ahead of me and never had the motivation to start my own business. Or the know how, or experience, or knowledge. So I will work for the man until either I die or I win the lottery, which i dont play so.....

 

Ya don't play the lottery, your odds are astronomically better in Vegas. The Lottery is for the mathematically challenged (yet everyone claims they're ahead haha).

 

I have a lot of years working ahead too, I'm just making this a priority. I also have no kids to worry about or other such responsibilities. That was deliberate though  

[flyfisher]

OnlyFans pays me to stop sending my content.

[Columbia Craw]

Retired 

[Luke Barnes]

7 hours ago, Columbia Craw said:

Retired 

Now that's a car!!! Or better yet a tank on wheels!

[J._Bricker]

8 hours ago, Columbia Craw said:

Retired 

 The superior patrol vehicle of it’s time CC, especially when compared to the previous decade’s Ford Fairmont, Chevy Malibu and Dodge Diplomats. The performance of the ‘95 Impala w/the LT-1 wasn’t matched until the the introduction of the Charger. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane and continue to enjoy your retirement….

[Ratherbfishing]

Retired and now work part-time in the fishing department of a sporting goods store.  It's a lot more fun buying stuff than "selling it."

[Boomstick]

Software engineer, full stack web development.

[Teal]

On 5/16/2021 at 7:36 PM, Way2slow said:

Teal, want to post a cool video.  Put one on of your plant turning a tree for the veneer down to a fence post in no time.  GP had a plant in Savanah I serviced some of their equipment and that process amazed me.

Man it amazes me and I work there.  I work for GP